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Something I would like to see pursued is a race to the bottom - of power consumption, that is. Is it physically possible to produce a chip that consumes no pow
by bovermyer 4y ago
Something I would like to see pursued is a race to the bottom - of power consumption, that is.
Is it physically possible to produce a chip that consumes no power? How would that be done? What would be required?
Is anyone asking questions like that?
- krapp 4y agoNo... no one is asking questions like that because a chip that consumes no power but still does work would be greater than 100% efficient and would violate the laws of thermodynamics.
- bovermyer 4y agoWell sure, but exploring the _idea_ of zero power consumption might lead to interesting discoveries in efficiency and power consumption models, even if actually achieving 0% power consumption is impossible.
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- sc0ttyd 4y agoNo, because that would violate the laws of thermodynamics.
- contingencies 4y agoYes, if the problem is viewed broadly, eg. passive packages like RFID tags. Power consumption has been a focus area in chips since forever. For active chips, it's not possible if the problem is viewed narrowly however it's possible to have a package that contains both power generation capability (eg. solar, kinetic) and highly power efficient, sporadic processing which probably exist already. Major application areas would be long-lived deployments (eg. animal tags, probes, implants, wearables).